Aug 15
Recently a handful of types of webcams turned dark in Skype, Zoom and other video chat programs, while the Windows Camera app still showed the video perfectly. The cases I ran into were running Windows 10 1909 or 2004 running on older models of hardware. Cams were showing up as ‘easycam’ or ‘HP HD webcam’ …
Jun 07
Trying to get the new 2004 Build on you device & running in to this screen on your updates? ‘Your device isn’t quite ready’ This means there’s a reason to temporarily block you from getting the new build. (This is good! You’ve just been saved from possible compatibility issues with your current setup) These reasons …
May 30
A new option in taskbar search, also available in the recently released 2004 Version of Windows 10 ‘Search with a screenshot’ integrates Bing Visual Search with Snip & Sketch This enables you to quickly grab a snip of something on your screen and look it up on the internet.
May 21
At Build Microsoft released their own package repo accessible from any device to facilitate easy deployment of packages & applications How do you get this on your device? Step 1 Open the Windows Store to grab your copy of App Installer If you already have it installed make sure you get it updated to the …
May 16
At the logon screen by default the last used sign in method is shown You might have many options to choose from, – Pin– Password – Picture– Microsoft account– Face Recognition– Fingerprint (Helo) If you want to set a default logon method for your users, a reg tweak can do this for you: It’s stored …
Apr 19
Used to have the Bing Desktop Toolbar installed to have a new wallpaper from Bing every day like me? Microsoft’s Bing Wallpaper tool will do just that for you now, get it here: Microsoft Bing Wallpaper Combine this with the option to “Automatically pick an accent color from my background” in Settings/Personalization/Colors and you pc’s …
Mar 02
Commercial and educational customers moving to the cloud with Microsoft 365 have long needed a simple, easy print experience for their employees. Today we are happy to announce a private preview of Universal Print, a Microsoft cloud-based print infrastructure that will enable a simple, rich and secure print experience for users and help reduce time …
Jan 19
January 15th Microsoft released new Edge Browser, based on the Chromium Engine This does not mean the Old Edge will be replaced on your system right away. If you want it Today, you can get it here: New Edge Download Link If you’re planning to roll it out at your company, go here for the …
Nov 12
Here’s how to fix it: You will need Windows 10 Setup media to recover the WinRE.wim, if you don’t have this you can user Media Creation Tool To avoid the need for extra partitions, I used a folder c:\recovery mount your setup media (iso or usb) in an elevated prompt run the following commands: creating …
Sep 14
Ever resumed from standby & confronted with a black screen? 1st response would be to hit some keys, move the mouse & if the doesn’t work press the power button for 4 seconds & start the machine again with potential unsaved work lost? Ad this one to your steps, it might just get you there …
